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Urban Dreams and Realities is a collection of articles on cities in ancient cultures, both their physical and conceptual aspects. A wide range of subjects and disciplinary perspectives are represented, especially the archaeology, epigraphy and literature of the Roman Empire.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kemezis, Adam M., 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Temas:
Public spaces > Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Collective memory.
Group identity.
City planning > Social aspects > Greece > History.
City planning > Social aspects > Rome > History.
City planning > Social aspects > Middle East > History.
Cities and towns, Ancient > Greece > History.
Cities and towns > Rome > History.
Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East > History.
Social Identification
Espaces publics > Aspect social.
Sociologie urbaine.
Mémoire collective.
Identité collective.
Villes antiques > Grèce > Histoire.
urban sociology.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns, Ancient
City planning > Social aspects
Collective memory
Group identity
Public spaces > Social aspects
Sociology, Urban
Greece
Middle East
Rome (Empire)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis
  • PART I. CITY AS SPACE I : REMAINS ON THE GROUND
  • In defense of Arkadia : the city as a fortress / Matthew Maher
  • The Mundus of Caere and early Etruscan urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi
  • "Fighting over a shadow?" : Hellenistic Greek cities and Greco-Roman cities as fora and media for multi-level social signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider
  • Constructing an Oscan cityscape : Pompeii and the Eituns inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson
  • Unravelling the reality of a 'city' on the Deccan plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen
  • Monumentalising the ephemeral in ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans
  • PART II. CITY AS SPACE II. LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE
  • Future city in the heroic past : Rome, Romans & Roman landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 / Eric J. Kondratieff
  • Reading the civic landscape of Augustan Rome : Aeneid 1.421-429 and the building program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips
  • The predatory palace : Seneca's Thyestes and the architecture of tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh
  • Imperial Roman cities as places of memory in Augustine's confessions / Owen M. Ewald
  • PART III. CITY AS IDENTITY I: CULTURES IN STONE
  • Sacred exchange : the religious institutions of emporia in the mediterranean world of the later iron age / Megan Daniels
  • Greek poleis in the Near East and their Parthian overlords / Josef Wiesehofer
  • Civic identity in Roman Ostia : some evidence from dedications (inaugurations) / Christer Bruun
  • Chariot racing in Hispania Tarraconensis : urban Romanization and provincial identity / Raymond Capra
  • PART IV. CITY AS IDENTITY II : COMMUNITIES ON PAPER
  • The seat of kingship : (re)constructing the city in Isaiah 24-27 / Ian Douglas Wilson
  • Remembering pre-Israelite Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud : mnemonic preferences, memories and social imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Memory and the Greek city in Strabo's geography / Edward Dandrow
  • The ekklesia of early Christ-followers in Asia Minor as the eschatological New Jerusalem : counter-imperial rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner
  • From kinship to state : the family and the ancient city in nineteenth-century ethnology / Emily Varto.

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